Help me!! 1st TRAIL CAM purchase…

  • jigging_jag
    SE Minnesota
    Posts: 203
    October 19, 2011 at 11:11 pm #1274218

    Oh my! Where to start, well I would like to buy a good quality trail cam but don’t know where to start. The main thing is good response time and quality photos (night as well). Do not want to spend too much but, need good quality also. Any ideas or help would be great. Looking between $100-$150 range. Thanks

    Wade Boardman
    Grand Rapids, MN
    Posts: 4469
    October 19, 2011 at 11:17 pm #1002730

    I took their advice and got the Reconyx. Awesome camera. Not cheap but awesome.

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    jigging_jag
    SE Minnesota
    Posts: 203
    October 19, 2011 at 11:27 pm #1002740

    Anyone know about the Moultrie M80 Game Spy Cam?

    Steve Plantz
    SE MN
    Posts: 12241
    October 19, 2011 at 11:30 pm #1002742

    You are probably going to get several different opinions on you question but I have had good luck with Moultrie Cams, I have seven of them right now one of my older ones 3 or 4 years old stopped working this year but that is the only issue I have had with any of them. I need to contact Moultrie to see what they can do for me. The last two I got are the Game Spy I-35, they are running a special right now buy one get one free, it takes very nice pics and can take video at night as well as it has infrared flash.

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    znak
    Byron, Mn. Rainy Lake
    Posts: 144
    October 19, 2011 at 11:45 pm #1002744

    I have the Reconyx rapid fire.

    skeeter20
    Winnie/Grand Rapids,MN
    Posts: 902
    October 19, 2011 at 11:48 pm #1002748

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    Anyone know about the Moultrie M80 Game Spy Cam?

    Good camera! We got a couple of them, a couple D55IR, 4 older moultries and 2 cuddybacks. The moultries have worked perfect and take nice pictures. Batteries last long time too.

    jigging_jag
    SE Minnesota
    Posts: 203
    October 20, 2011 at 12:36 am #1002764

    M80 VS. D55IR how much of a difference??

    cat dude
    Arlington, MN
    Posts: 1389
    October 20, 2011 at 1:42 am #1002787

    I have cuddybacks and 2 moultrie’s.

    For the money, hard to beat the moultrie. As stated above, the battery last for quite some time. Left one camera in the wood and got it May 25th of the next spring. It was still taking photo,s. Some of the spendy cameras do have a bit more clarity but for the money the moultrie does fine with photo’s that can easily be viewed.

    tom_gursky
    Michigan's Upper Peninsula(Iron Mountain)
    Posts: 4749
    October 20, 2011 at 2:27 am #1002802

    This was taken with a Moultrie DS55 (no infrared)…under $100. Cant beat the quality and they are pre programmed for even guys like me…

    whiskeysour
    4 miles from Pool 9
    Posts: 693
    October 20, 2011 at 11:13 am #1002854

    I recieved a Bushnell model 119405 for Christmas a couple of years ago and I like it. Takes nice color pics during the day and has pretty good night pics too. just pop out one SD card and pop in the other and go home and see what you captured. Batteries last 6 months too. Not sure what it cost.

    skeeter20
    Winnie/Grand Rapids,MN
    Posts: 902
    October 20, 2011 at 11:39 am #1002862

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    M80 VS. D55IR how much of a difference??

    Roughly $30. We bought one of our D55IR’s last year and one this year because they were sold out of the M80’s. I bought mine from L&M in Grand Rapids. The D55IR I think was $100 and M80 was $130.

    Here is a couple pics from last year with our older Moultrie camera 4.0. I dont have any new pics saved on this computer but they are just as good as these maybe a little better.

    Wade Boardman
    Grand Rapids, MN
    Posts: 4469
    October 20, 2011 at 11:53 am #1002868

    On thing I will say is about speed. We’ve had a number of <$100 cameras and there were a lot of “blank” pictures or pictures of a butt as the animal walked through the frame. That’s why we got the Reconyx. That thing just bangs out pics very quickly. We’ve had no “blanks” that we believe to be from an animal walking through. In fact now we’ve got 3-4 pics of animals walking through the frames and they don’t appear to be stopping.

    jd318
    NE Nebraska
    Posts: 757
    October 21, 2011 at 2:42 pm #1003162

    I got my first trail camera this spring. Bushnell Bone Collector Trophy Cam. It took right at 10,000 pics (less than 10 blank) before the batteries died.

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